A writ that lay for one against his neighbor, by the anticipatedfall of whose house he feared a damage and injury to his own. Reg. Orig. 153.DOMUS. Lat. In the civil and old English law. A house or dwelling; a habitation. Inst.4, 4, 8; Townsh. PI. 183-185. Bennet v. Bittle, 4 Rawle (Pa.) 342.
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